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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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Collin Campbell, business information officer at Cushman & Wakefield, has engineered a different solution to this problem. For Bryan Muehlberger, CIO at Vuori, the rise of SaaS use has also led to a corresponding rise in vendor management challenges. “We It’s unwieldy at times managing a detailed budget by vendor.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

The demand for specialized skills has boosted salaries in cybersecurity, data, engineering, development, and program management. 1. IT management It’s no surprise that IT executive positions earn some of the highest average salaries, with Dice reporting an average yearly salary of $164,814 in 2022 — an 8.4%

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

CIO

This demand has driven up salaries for IT roles, especially those around development, engineering, and support. Skills such as software engineering, architecture, cloud, and program management are highly sought after as more companies explore creating both internal and external applications and solutions.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

In these cases, it’s important to budget more time finding the right partner, speaking with them, implementing a proof of concept, and staying closer to progress than you would with a partner working on a more mainstream project.” Dig into talent management details. Double down on vendor management.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO

And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. Traditionally, such an initiative would involve business process analysis, a fit-gap analysis, and process re-engineering — all of which eats up time.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. At a previous company with a cost-effective corporate data center and infrastructure environment, Upchurch found that simply moving enterprise applications to the cloud would have decimated the budget. And the costs recur monthly or quarterly,” Upchurch says.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

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No need to negotiate the proposed solution for any given problem with the budget holder. No long debates with other engineers about the envisioned solution. Architects should be dynamic, understanding the purpose of management with the organization and the engineering challenges of the development teams.